With the NHS 10 Year Plan now published, Becks Fisher says the plan is rightly ambitious and contains much to like. But plans ...

Responding to the NHS 10 Year Plan, Nuffield Trust Chief Executive Thea Stein said: “The government is right about the ...

On the measures of the 10 Year Plan relating to dentistry, Nuffield Trust Director of Research and Policy Dr Becks Fisher said: “Our failure to get dentists working in the NHS is at the heart of why a ...

Following recent press speculation that the UK may soon agree to pay more for drugs used within the NHS as part of a trade ...

As the ongoing Covid Inquiry turns its focus to the social care sector, and with social care in desperate need of ...

As the Hallett Inquiry turns its focus to social care this week, this blog draws on a set of interational case beinng ...

Background High levels of hospital bed occupancy are an important indicator of a health system under pressure. Hospitals cannot operate at 100% occupancy, as spare bed capacity is needed to ...

The length of time patients spend in A&E before admission, transfer or discharge depends on the type of A&E unit they visit. In the past, minor A&Es (types 2 and 3, such as single specialty ...

The review of access standards concluded that 85% of patients should wait for less than a period of two months (62 days) from a GP urgent referral, NHS cancer screening, or consultant upgrade to any ...

Category 1 ambulance calls are those that are classified as life-threatening and needing immediate intervention and/or resuscitation, e.g. cardiac or respiratory arrest. The national standard states ...

Rates of hospital admission as a result of self-harm in children and young people are considerably higher for children and young people between the age of 15–19 than children aged 10–14 years and ...

Bowel cancer screening in the form of a home-testing kit is offered to men and women aged 60–74 every two years. From June 2019, the faecal immunochemical test (FIT) replaced the faecal occult blood ...